摘要 |
A slurry of either pure or dissolved liquid metal and its oxide is oxidized by steam to produce hydrogen, and then regenerated to its original composition by a reducing gas. The liquid metal can be tin, indium, or several others. The slurry approach makes greatly simplified operation in either the batch or continuous mode possible, and allows the all-important equilibrium point of the two reactions to be controlled independently of temperature. The mode of operation is further defined in order to achieve desirable process temperature conditions with adiabatic operation.
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